"Sir, Kim Jong Il is dead! The apparent cause of death was a heart attack caused by overworking.""Well... Looks like he was a lot more il..."* sunglasses *"Than anyone thought."YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAH.

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o/` I do not feel joy o/`o/` I do not dream o/`o/` I only stare at the door and smoke o/`

"Sir, Kim Jong Il is dead! The apparent cause of death was a heart attack caused by overworking.""Well... Looks like he was a lot more il..."* sunglasses *"Than anyone thought."YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAH.

i was actually a little bit proud that no one had posted something like this.THANKS

It may not actually all be staged. I'm sure it's encouraged, but there is a strong belief amongst many DPRK residents that Kim is some kind of benevolent leader. It's screwed up, but hey, you'd probably believe it somewhat too if it's all you were ever taught.

It may not actually all be staged. I'm sure it's encouraged, but there is a strong belief amongst many DPRK residents that Kim is some kind of benevolent leader. It's screwed up, but hey, you'd probably believe it somewhat too if it's all you were ever taught.

Very much this. For example, I don't think there's a single American(Western?)-born and raised citizen, for instance, that doesn't consider Mao ZeDong a villain, outside of maybe some very history-literate people, and even then. Yet among Chinese and even amongst some Taiwanese he is very often seen as a mixed-bag figure or even a heroic one. We're pretty quick to label this as some sort of cultural brainwashing without taking into consideration that we are capable of being subject to the very same thing.

Regardless of what anyone says, being "happy" that Kim Jong-il is dead is silly as hell.

What's silly as hell is that you have access to the internet, video games to play, food to eat, and thus have a much more privileged life than most of the world, thus allowing you the elbow room for your self-righteousness. I know cartoons and JRPGs have taught you that death is terrible and stuff, but when victims have had their entire extended family put into concentration camps and/or executed for the slightest infraction and a few have beaten the odds and escaped from that shithole of a country where stealing food isn't even an option because there's barely any food to steal as just another result of Kim Jong Il's failed leadership, to say that being happy he is dead is silly as hell is utterly ridiculous.

How bad the USA has been in the past or is currently in the present has no bearing on the matter. His successor could be just as bad and nothing may change there, but the world has one less toolbag and there's plenty of reasons some may be happy about it.